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TELL-TALE RUNNER UP
An Acting “Silver Medal” I’m happy to report that I won Runner Up Best Actor of Year 2020 from Flicks Film Festival for my performance in “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre“. I’ve already posted about the Flicks Film Festival … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged 2020, Agatha Christie, Best Actor, Best of the Year, certificate, Covid 19, Facebook, festival, film, finalist, Flicks, In the Mud, laurel, musicabre, Runner Up, Sanming Han, semi-finalist, short film, silver medal, The Tell-Tale Heart
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TELL-TALE over TIMES SQUARE
The Tell-Tale Poster Shines on a Big Billboard over Broadway Last night Ed and I travelled to Times Square to watch the poster for my gothic musical short film “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” be broadcast over Times Square. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged billboard, Black Lives Matter, Broadway, Competition, coronavirus, Covid 19, Ed Elder, Facebook, Film Festival, Godzilla, horror, long hair, Marriot Marquis, Mask, musicabre, New York City, pandemic, poster, Rainbow, Shockfest, Silvercast Media, The Tell-Tale Heart, Times Square
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FESTIVAL PANDEMIC POSTPONEMENTS
See you in … 2021? Below is the 2020 Official Trailer for the Denali Film Festival. It’s a beautifully put together trailer, full of lovely images of the great outdoors. You get a strong sense for the festival’s overriding theme, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres, The Teaching Artist
Tagged Alaska, coronavirus, Covid 19, Denali, Editing, Facebook, festival, film, horror, Horror Hotel, International, landscape, musicabre, musical, nature, Northeast, Ohio, pandemic, The Tell-Tale Heart, Todd Maki, trailer
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An HIV Positive Gay Man’s Advice on Living in the Age of Covid
My friend Tim Cusack posted this on Facebook: “For all the straight white people whining about how wearing masks is inconvenient and uncomfortable, how you miss human contact and all the things you used to be able to do, bemoaning … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News
Tagged Aids, community, condom, Covid 19, Facebook, Gay, gratitude, HIV Positive, Hope, masks, mourning, pandemic, plague, Reagan, Republican, Tim Cusack
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TELL-TALE LIVE STREAM Q&A
Watch my Q&A after Wednesday’s Tell-Tale live-streaming Yesterday evening NewFilmmakers NY hosted a Facebook live streaming of most of their Wednesday program originally scheduled to screen at the Anthology Theatre in New York City, and now postponed for sometime … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthology, Brandon Ruckdashel, coronavirus, Facebook, live, musicabre, NewFilmmakers NY, Q&A, streaming, The Tell-Tale Heart
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The 3/25 NYC TELL-TALE SCREENING will be LIVE-STREAMING
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” was scheduled to receive its New York City screening premiere next Wednesday, March 25, at the Anthology Theater , sponsored by New Filmmakers NY. Well, we lately hit a little snag in the form … Continue reading
Contemplation before the show
My husband Ed took this pic of me in the lobby of Theater for the New City sitting at our concession stand by the entrance into the Johnson Theater. Speakeasy would be performing in about 40 minutes that Saturday … Continue reading
SPEAKEASY CAMPAIGN VIDEO PREVIEW – plus Audition and Facebook News!
Speakeasy Kickstarter Fundraising Campaign Video: Above is a sneak peek at the video we created for our upcoming Kickstarter fundraising campaign for Speakeasy. Look forward to the fundraiser being launched in a little over a week. Meanwhile you can now … Continue reading
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There is now a Facebook page for “Notes from a Composer”. All new blog posts will also be listed on the “Notes from a Composer – Danny Ashkenasi” Facebook page: Notes from a Composer – Danny Ashkenasi FACEBOOK PAGE So … Continue reading